comparissons between the hostels and hotels

This is a view from the Dan Hostel in Denmark.

During our travels throughout Scandinavia we had a chance to experience a veriety of places. As our trip had the thinking of "Green", our hostels and hotels were supposed to be mostly ecoaware with the swan ecological label. We fist stayed in the Reykjavik city Hostel which in an earlier post was stated to have the ecolabel which helped us see the more concious efforts of Iceland. While traveling to Bergen, we stayed in the Thon hotel which also had the eco labels. This hotel, I felt, did not show as many signs as being actually "green" because of the fact that it was a bit more "luxorious" compared to our first hostel experience. In Oslo, we stayed at the Oslo hostel outside of town which really didnt help with the "eco friendly" tour by us because of the fact we did have to ride public transportation back and forth all the time to hostel instead of walking if we were right downtown. The efforts in this hostel were not made as clear for it being an ecofriendly hostel as well because of the fact of not seeing the actual eco labels on indivual things such as soaps or toiletpaper. In Norway though there were many concious efforts that could be seen to keep the environment and more eco awareness is still prevelent. While we were in Sweden we stayed at the Scandic hotel, which had great recycling efforts as well as energy efficiant lighting. One example of this was that when entering the room, you would have to put your key in a slot in order for the lights to go on, and then when you left you would take it out of the slot. This way, no lights get left on by accident waisting more unessisary electricity.